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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply;
- Example: "agitated parents"

2. physically disturbed or set in motion;
- Example: "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

agitated \agitated\ adj. 1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ; {wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady. [WordNet 1.5] 2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side. Syn: tossing [WordNet 1.5] 3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand. Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred.] [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Agitate \Ag"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Agitating.] [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act, Agent.] 1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. To move or actuate. [R.] --Thomson. [1913 Webster] 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. [1913 Webster] The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs. [1913 Webster] Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

agitated adj 1: troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents" [ant: unagitated] 2: physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled" [ant: unagitated]